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CHAPTER III RESEARCH FINDINGS
A. Data Description
This chapter, seven texts of the Jakarta Post‟s advertisements will be analyzed by
applying the Halliday and Hasan‟s theory. According to them, cohesion here is divided into two aspects, lexical and grammatical cohesion. The
unifying text is seen from the connection among sentences expressed through grammatical agencies and lexical elements. The aims of this research are to know
the kinds of cohesive devices which applied in advertisements of The Jakarta Post newspaper and to describe the cohesiveness of the texts which used in seven
advertisements of The Jakarta Post newspaper. The unit analysis in this research is seven texts of advertisements on
August and September 2014 in the Jakarta Post newspaper which selected randomly. In this research, the writer limits analysis of synonym or near-synonym
only the category of nouns. The data will be analyzed based on the topic units. In the data analysis, every sentence in each text
will be abbreviated with “S” as a unit, for the example, sentence 1 S.1. The data are as follows:
Table 3: The Units in the Text 1
Sentence Text
Ties Cohesive Items
1 As cities get bigger, they
get harder to manage.
3 -
Personal reference: they -
Comparative reference: bigger, harder
2
That‟s why we have developed
new information technologies
that collect and analyze big data on so many
4 -
General word: things -
Personal reference: we -
Comparative reference: so many
- Conjunction: and
things
that touch people‟s lives.
3 For instance, if you know
how many cars are on the road at rush hour or how
much
electricity and
water are being used at any given time, you can
make better decision.
5 -
Personal reference: you -
Definite article: the -
Comparative reference: many, better
- Conjunction: and
4 And
the more 0 you know, the easier it is to
plane a tomorrow where cities feel like home no
matter how big they get.
8 -
Personal reference: you, they, it
- Definite article: the
- Comparative reference:
more, easier -
Ellipsis new
innformation technologies
- Conjunction: and
Table 4: The Units in the Text 2
Sentence Text
Ties Cohesive Items
1 There is a lasting spirit; a
spirit
to unite to give a
meaning to our
nation‟s independence.
2 -
Repetition: spirit -
Personal reference: our
2 So
is our commitment as a total food solutions
company to
grow sustainably
and to
contribute to weathering the
food security and
self-sufficiently challenge.
6 -
Repetition: food -
Personal reference: our -
Definite article: the -
Comparative reference: as
- Conjunction: and, so
Table 5: The Units in the Text 3
Sentence Text
Ties Cohesive Items
1 Under waving red and
white flag, the country
‟s
sons and
daughters
‟ 4
- Synonym
or near-
synonym: nation
– country, the nation‟s
unyielding relentless
spirit forge ahead in building the nation
‟s society
. society
– all components of the nation
- Definite article: the
- Conjunction: and
2 For the future of the
nation , the sons and
daughters of Indonesia
courageously sell across the
ocean through the storms and surging wave.
5 -
Repetition: sons,
daughters, Indonesia -
Definite article: the -
Conjunction: and
3 In commemoration of the
69
th
Indonesia Day of the Republic of Indonesia
, Astra
invites all
components of the nation to constantly cultivate
and
promote camaraderie
to build the future of Indonesia
. 8
- Repetition: Indonesia,
Republic of Indonesia, future, nation
- Synonym
or near-
synonym: Indonesia-
Republic of Indonesia -
Superordinate: Indonesia-nation
- Demonstrative
Reference: the -
Conjunction: and
Table 6: The Units in the Text 4
Sentence Text
Ties Cohesive Items
1 The unity of Indonesia
and the true economic
integration of
this archipelago
country can
only be achieved through an end-to-end maritime
logistic reform. 4
- Superordinate: country-
Indonesia -
Definite article: the, this -
Conjunction: and
2 Without this, Indonesia
is merely a collection of islands,
not an
archipelago economy. 2
- Repetition: Indonesia
- Demonstrative
reference: this 3
Our independence must
be filled with hard work.
1 -
Personal reference: our 4
We would like to achieve
it by developing the
largest port throughout 5
- Repetition:
independence, Indonesia -
Personal reference: we,